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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-30
COMMENT AND OPINION.

! IT is hard to see why New York lawyers
| should work SO hard to get suitable jurles when
| they have such accommodating judges. -Phila-
dephia Inquirer.
REALLY now, we admire the patience of the
New Workers in this Sharp dilatoriness. The
people ought to forget the respect due to
the bench even if the man sitting on it should
Boston Globe.
THE Prohi bitionists in convention at SYRIA
cuse called the roll to find how many del
egates were church members. but they forgot to
ascertain the number or druggists present.-St
IL outs Post Dispatch.
THE President lost but little time in filing
the vacancy in the Fish Commissioners Office.
He wants the fish properly attended to so that
he can 60 angling as usual next Decoration day
-Pittsburg Chronicle.
GRADYs new South will have to be put back
In the oven and baked over. 1t was taken out
before it done. And by the way, Mr.. Grady,
don't use the Glenn baking powder, if you wish
1t to rse.-Detroit Tribune
RAILROAD men find that carheatng by steam
is entirely practicable States whose Legis
latures have ordered the stoves to go. A
little legislation has wonderful effect some
Standardization Transcript
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND may we'll pray to be
delivered from the Southern friends who want
to arrange meeting between him and Jeffer-
Davis at Atlanta. The war is over but we
are hardly ready yet to make a hero of Mr.. Davis.
New York Tribune
Mvl How apples swim!" The self
styled Labor leaders" protest that they are
too "brainy" election judges and
clerks. AS members of party year old.
these gentlemen are early commencing the boss
business over the rank and file.-Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette.
LESS harm is done to public morals and the
public conscience when the Offices openly
seized spoils than when public Office is de-
scribed public trust and is then covertly
laid hold of and divided up the basis of
party service. In the particular in which Mr..
Cleveland's administration differs from that of
avowed spokesman the difference, it seems to
US, Is TO Its dlScred1E-BoStOn journal
So far az can be discernsd the chief incentive
to this new Know nothing movement is in nat
ural hatred of strangers and foreigners who do
not speak its language, follow its social customs
or believe in it's religious crseds. The old Know
nothing party lived for just about year after
it entered the political field and challsn ged pub
lie discussion of its aims. 1t would be rash TO
predict any greater degree of vitality in the
of this latest of political Observation-Disclosures
phia Record
The fool element of the Grand Army of the
Republic pretty thoroughly disgusting the
country Fair-minded Republicans well as
Democrats are indignant at their continued in
suits of the President. If these gross affronts
keep up much longer, the professional veterans
who are commanding them may find that they
furnishing about all the opposition to the
President that exists. great many people are
likely to resent the acts of the Grand Army of
the Republic by giving him their cordial approx
al and support.-Chicago Times DEM
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-30

HERE Is another national issue to fire the
soul of the Indiana Democracy. TIE trouble
now is about Jim" Woods and his son. A
good many people remember Jim Woods
the Irish miner" who stumped the State for
the Republicans in 1880, and afterwards made
speeches in New York. Well, Jim and his
son, who is also Republican, are holding
places in Washington, and it makes the
Democrats of Warrick county, where the
Woods used to live, exceedingly weary. In
fact, they are unhappy and quite discouraged
about things. They cannot see much use of
having a government, keeping up the
organization of the Democratic party, if Jim
Woods and his son to continue in Office.
So they have forwarded to Hon. Eb Hender-
son a formidable petition, setting forth the
fragrant Republcanism of father and son, and
urging, in the most pathetic manner, that
they be removed. The petition says:
1.-THE Democrats of Warrick county made
gallant fight in 1884, and carried the county
by 400 majority. The county has always
been solid Democratic. The battle-cry was,
Turn the rascals OUT taught by such
orators as the noble Hendricks. We fought
never fought before, believing that
would get our old enemies the Woods, out of
Office, and with that bright hope we carried
the county by larger majority than ever.
But imagine chagrin, the CALLING effects
on the party, the humiliating influence on the
gallant boys that had fought well, when
we failed to turn them out. They threw it in
our faces, they tainted US on our failure. Its
blighting influence was felt in the party in
the last election. A Democratic majority of
400 in 1884 was changed into Republican
victory. The Republicans carried everything,
from Congressman down, electing the Repub
ican ticket, something that never happened in
the county before. The Democrats were dis
heartened, discouraged and Disguised. They
refused to work, refused to vote-in fact,
many voted the Republican ticket. Unless
something is done to restore the confidence of
the party, something to harmonic its dis
heartened ranks, we will be in the same con-
dition in 1885,"
Probably there never was anything funnier
than this in politics-even in the Democratic
politics Of Indiana. The reference to the
once happy times when Warrick county was
solidly Democratic, and when, under the hope
of Office, they fought as they never had be-
fore; the terrible chagrin and humiliation
they experienced when they found that Jim
Woods and his son were not turned out; the
tremendous political revolution caused by this
discovery which wiped out a Democratic ma
jority of 400, and enabled the Republicans to
carry everything" the present discourage
ment of the lion-hearted Democracy of War
rick county, and the gloomy outlook for the
future, all go to make a marvelously moving
picture and wonderfully pathetic appeal. The
paper is signed by the officers of the Demo
cratic county and township committees, and
Mr.. Henderson is expected to plant it where
it will explode and blow the Woods family
completely and effectually out of Office.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-30

THE fundamental idea Of the Henry George
theory is that individual ownership of land
should be done away with, that all land
should be owned by the government and
leased to individuals, the entire rent being
taken by the State, and no other form of tax
alton allowed. If he wants to recruit party
on that platform he should open an Office in
Wall street. The men who own no land and
never expect to, and who want to escape pay
ing taxes on personal property, ought to be
enthusiastically IN favor of his scheme. On
the other hand, it will be as naturally opposed
by every person that owns, or ever expects to
own a bit of land.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-30

AMONG the arrivals in New York Sunday
was a middle-agsd gentleman of rather ins:g-
nfcant appearance who registered as ''the
Duke of Marlborough England" His full name
with the titular appendages is George Charles
Spencer Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, Mar
ouis OF Blandford, Earl of Sunderland, Earl of
Marlborough. Baron Spencer Of Worleighton
and Baron Churchill of Sandridge-all in
the peerage of England; Prince OF the Holy Ro-
man Empire Prince of Mindeiheim in Suabla,
and High Steward of Woodstock. Fancy man
carrying such a lot of trumpery as that around
with him wherever he GOES.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-30

SYLvANUs FL. SWEET, the man who was
nominated by the New York Labor convention
the other day for the Office of State Engineer
and Surveyor, says very emphatically: 81
know nothing about the Labor party, never
took any part in their councils, never con-
suited with them or they with me. was not
a candidate for the nomination, did not seek
it, do not want it, and will not accept it. :"
Mr.. Sweet is an engineer by profession, and
being genuine working man has no time to
devote to labor parties or politics
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-30
GrnYer,s ,Wnnn


Grover loved the little Mugwump.
It's rec ord fair to see;
And everywhere that Grover went
The mug was sure to be.
'Wump followed him to school one day.
That was against the rule;
1t made the children laugh and play
To see mug at SCHOOL.
And 50 the teacher turned 'wump out,
But still it fingered rear
And waited patiently about
Till Grover did appear.
OH what m axes mug love Grover so.
The eager children cry;
OH Grover loves the 'wump, you know,
The teacher did reply.
MARION, Ind, Aug. %.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-30
A Hnmiliating Spectacle.

Evansville Journal
The spectacle of the Indiana State treasury
living from hand to mouth-to use a common
expression. implying pauperism-is humilar-
ing The State Treasurer literally has TO beg
county treasurers to advance funds, there being
legal obligation them to do so. The Dem
ocratic party has great deal to answer for in
causing this state of things by seating the
usurper, Green Smith, and depriving Lieuten-
ant-governor Robertson of place to which he
was fairly elected by the people.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-30

A COMMITTEE of the Indiana Historical
Society cards the Veterans Review urging
the preparation and publication of the his
tories Of the Indiana regiments in the war of
the rebellion. The move is timely. Some of
the regiments have their histories in print,
and the others ought to complete the record
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-30

The New York Post is shocked and grieved
because the Iowa G. A. r. encampment not
only failed to rebuke General Tuttle for his
utterances concerning the President but
actually Endorsed the man. Well, the en-
campment did that very thing, for a fact and
the question now is what are the Post and its
ugh-faced friends going to do about it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-30

THE President has decided to infct punish
ment upon Ohio. When he comes West,
next month, he will not stop anywhere in
that State and its citizens will not be per-
mitted to look upon him. This will be severe,
but the. Commonwealth will probably con-
tinue business at the old stand.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-30

COMMENTING on the fact that the Repub-
ican, Democratic and Prohibition candidates
for the governorship of Ohio are all Method
list commandments, an exchange remarks that
if the Methodists vote as they pray they will
be in a quandary. Well, not necessarily. The
majority of the brethren pray with Foraker
and for the other two, which makes great
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-30
A Weird Yarn.

Dalton (Ga.) Citizen.
1t is said the corn is so rank. dark and green
on the Connesauga bottoms that the light from
the fre-fiies can be seen Pickering through It's
sombre shade even VIXEN the sun Is nigh In tns
heavens An odd farmer tells good one about
a fellow who lost his way In one OF these VASE.
dark forests of corn. and was utterly unable 70
extricate himself. An exploring party with
ian,arns went in search of him. When at last
the lost was found he was discovered In the
ton of a tall cornstalk astraddle of an ear of
corn where he had been for the last twenty -FOUR
hours watching for the sun TO rise.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-30
A Hint to Dan.

Minneapolis Tribune.
Nv Cleveland is to rartake of two banouets in
Philadelphia on the 18th of September. and Dan
Lamont is now preparing the speeches. Here is
a suggestion to Daniel: To deceive the ban.
oueters into the belief that they are impromptu
little more stupid than the other-if possible
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-30

THE Springfield Republican speaks Of the
Colorado Indian war as artificial" In view
Of the fact that dozen or more Indians and
several white soldiers have been killed, it
would be interesting to know what the Repub-
ican regards as the real thing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-30

A YOUNG man who was converted" at Sal
walton Army meeting in Atlanta on Sunday,
shot himself while the officers and soldiers of
the band were singing around him. He gave as
a reason that now be had got religion he wanted
to die happy. In view of the frequent reports
of back sliding Salvationists it is much to be
wondered at that the new convert should wish
to pass away while the fit
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-30

Philadelphia vening Telegraph
A Providence man advertises in the papers
that he wants n young man to work for him
.swho must be- smart and well recon-
-p.nded and must have connection with BIZ
cycle club. base ball club or lawn tennis tourna-
mentsn If the smart young man wanted 10
found he may prove TO be a member OF secret
tohogpan club or have affiliations with venal
society of yachtm@n, IL is useless TO expect
Young man of these days to be wholly free from
vicious associations.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-30

THE village of Highland. N. Y, boasts of a
citizen who is blind and deaf but who has such a
powerful voice that he initiates thunder storm
with realistic effect. Such an accomplishment
must have tendency to make the mans
neighbors wish he were dumb well as deaf.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-30

peculiar campaign in New York The nomi-
nation Of John Swinton for Secretary of State
by the Socialists, as now seems certain to
happen. will add picturesque element to the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-30

PERHAPS the patients and employees at the
Insane Hospital need such large quantities
of strawberry jam in order to disguise the
taste of the butter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-30

ACCORDING to Boston paper ''well-known
literary man of that city says more than thirty
years of his life were wasted before be learned
to play tennis. This must refer to Mr. How
ellis. The game gives the opportunity for just
the sort Of character-study that he revels in.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-30

Do they want sixty-five telephones at the
Insane Asylum in order that the subordinate
employees may take their orders from Harrison,
Eullivan and others on the outside9
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-30

THE Democratic party in Indiana is far
more eager to punish Sam Perkins than it Is
to punish Sim Coy. They don't mind a
tally-sheet forger, but they can't stand
enuaaler.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-30

CHICAGO and Cincinnati have both achieved
the distinction of sending to the penitentiary
some of the rascals who have debauched the
ballot -box in those cities. Indianapolis has
her record to make yet.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-30
Young but Powerful.
Philadelphia Press.

PbiIadeIphla PreSs
Governor Foraker. of Ohio. is a young man,
but he has already won the distinction of being
the only person who ever knocked out the Presi-
dent of the United States and the Governor of
West Virginia in the year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-30

TYRoToxIcoN is little late in getting around
this season. but it is making mp for lost time.
Thirty people laid out, temporarily, however, at
one ice-cream festival is fairly good beginning
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-30

Politics and perjury saved the tally-sheet
forgers. They have let up on perjury for a
season, but are still practicing politics.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-30

SIM Coy tried to capture the criminal judge
ship by means of Sam Perkins. He proposes
10 capture the Mayors Office by means of DR..
Edenharter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-30

THE latest thing in Boston is said to be a hand
painted coffin. Does this come under the head
of "home decorationl'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-30

IT is proposed to invite JEFF Davis to At
lanta to welcome Mr.. Cleveland. The fools
are not all dead yet.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-30

A NEW YORK paper announces that in an
tcpa ton Of the s.Rr month. over 900, 900 oys-
tiers day are being opened in that city and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-30

Minneapolis Tribune.
Between the White Caps and the blacklegs,
Indiana is IN a very uncomfortable position.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-30

shipped West. One million dav sounds like
great many, but then the West has vast
capacity for oysters
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-30

Telephone Calls.
Business 23S Editorial Rooms ------242
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Can be found at the following places:
LONDON-American Exchange in Europe. 449
Strand.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

WASHINGTON oFFICE-5I3 Fourteenth st.
P. S. HEATH CORRESPONDENT
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-10-01
THE RED LETTER DAY.

Chicago Divorce Courts Surpass all Pre-
yious Records in Granting Divorces.
CHICAGO, September 24.-This was the
red letter day in the history of the divorce
courts of Chicago. Over 100 default cases,
alone said to be the largest number on
record for one day, were disposed of. The
reputation of Chicago as a divorce head
quarters, and the fact that the judges have
refused during their vacations this year to
hear hear any but urgent matters, are var
iously assigned as the causes for the except
ional heaviness of the calendar. The 200
and odd persons whose matrimonial exlss
tence it was proposed to judicially murder.
were lost in the crowds of sympathizing
friends and curious spectators who came to
witness the execution. Coming and
going up and down for hours, the elevators
carried their cargoes, people of the most di-
verse degree and kind, some all tears and
sighs, others fippant and grimly content,
and still others smiling and happy. Then
there were the children, generally brought
along to fill some gap in the testimony. Ow-
ing to press of business, marriage notes
were lost between Unmatched couples with
even more than the usual celebrity of Chicaoo
divorce courts. "Papa! Papav' cried lit
tie girl, as a well dressed gentleman came
up to one of the elevators. The child was
snatched away by the lady who held her
hand, and the gentleman turned his head
and instead of waiting for the elevator
walked down the stairs and out into the
street. He had just been divorced from the
lady who had the child.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-10-01
AsIATIC CHOLERA.

The Dreaded Disease Brought Over
New York by ''Dago" Emigrants.
NEW YORK, September 23.-The steam
ship "Alesia," which arrived here last night
fro Marseilles and Naples with 600 passen-
gers, has Asiatic cholera aboard. Eight of
her passengers died on passage, and on her
arrival at quarantine health officer found
four cases aboard. He has sent the "Alesia"
and her passengers to the west bank on the
lower bay. The "Alesia" left Marseilles
August 80, and Naples September 3. She IS
consigned to James w. Ellwells company.
On September II, Light Maria, steerage
passenger, aged % years, was taken sick and
died on the 18th. Paul Antonio Badly
Arian, another steerage passenger, was taken
sick and died on the same date. Jean Len1-
VIOLIN, sailor, aged 40, died the following
day in less than twenty-four hours from the
time he was taken down with the disease.
On the 17Ih Jean Somma, sailor aged ~,
was taken sick. He died on the 18th: Sera-
fin, aged 81, steerage passenger, died on
senger aged AZ, died on the 2lst. Francisco
Matteo, aged Al, was taken sick before com
ing on board and died on the 22nd. probably
of bronchitis. Maria Antonio Scala Neno,
aged So, was also ailing at the time of COM
ing on board and died on the ed, though
without any symptoms of cholera. All the
above we're buried at sea. The "Alesla" ID
now in the lower bay. Her sick passengers
will be transferred to the Swindburne Island
hospital. All remaining passengers will be
transferred to Hoffman island for observa-
tions. The ship will remain in the lower
bay until she he's been thoroughly fumigated
and disinfected.
commission returned from Hoffman island
late tonight. He said that there ten sick
passengers on the "Alesia" at Swinburne
island. When he left Hoffman island a
woman and two children were sick supposed
to be in the first stages of the
dread disease. Deaths among those affected
were liable to occur at any moment. Much
difficulty was experienced in landing pas.
sengers, one of the boats of the ''Alesla"
having been disabled on Friday last.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-10-01
A Transcontinental Scheme.

New YORK, September 2l.-The Times
prints the following on authority in North
ern Pacific affairs: The Chicago & Great
Western railroad will soon furnish an en-
trance to Chicago for through trains from
the Pacific coast, coming over the lines of
the Oregon Railway and Navigation, North
ern Pacific and the Wisconsin Central and
the Pacific coast and Chicago will thus be
cemented together by one system of roads,
and the Chicago & Great Western will find
ample use for its terminal facilities i'll Chi
cago. There is also talk, apparently well
founded, that the Union Pacific is about to
build line direct to Chicago from Omaha,
and thus be in a position to compete with
the Atchison with its new line. Another re-
port, which is entitled to consideration is
to the effect that the syndicate which is
seeking to control the Baltimore & Ohio, is
in party sympathy with the Northern Pacific
and Union Pacific. If the Baltimore q Ohio
goes into their hands, its terminus will be in
Chicago, at the Chicago & Great Western
station, thus affording an opportunity for
sending trains from the Pacific to the Allan
tic over one system and each road acting as
feeder for the other.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-10-01
Haunte d by a Murdered Woman.

IONA, M1cE., September 23.-Portland, a
small town near here, is much wrought up
over the report that the Collins homestead,
where Mrs. Collins was shot dead about a
year ago, is haunted. The tragedy was the
subject of several Investigations by county
and state authorities. The community at
the time was flooded with written and
printed charges against different persons,
originating from an unknown source, and it
is said that one or more persons were driven
insane by the excitement. Rumors of the
haunted house have been circulated for the
past two weeks; no serious attention was
paid to them until day or two ago, when
the assertion of Mrs. Roe, mother of the
dead woman, that she had seen and talked
with her daughter, led party of four to
make quiet investigation.
They spent Tuesday night in the house,
and confirm the stories told, claiming that
Mrs. Collins appeared to them in earthly
form, talked plainly, but in a low voice,
about her death, exonerated her husband,
said the gun was discharged by child by
accident, and then she disappeared. The
people have been wrought up to that state
where they are prepared to credit almost
anything now.